has this been done yet
m8, it was a democratic vote to leave an undemocratic union, not the seizure of ‘emergency powers’ by emperor fucking palpatine
shit thanks for clearing that up I was really sure Boris Johnson was actually Jar Jar Binks
And wow how democratic. A bunch of elderly racists that don’t know how to interface with poc they can’t exploit from afar have made a decision that will have consequences they won’t have to deal with. The younger generations, however, who do need to worry about jobs and the economy, and who did not want to leave the EU, are forced to reckon with an economy that has already started to nose dive.
Your calling the voters of the U.K. racists without any foundation for the claim doesn’t make the vote less democratic. And as for the idealistic younger generations with little knowledge of the real world, workplace, economy etc… Maybe they ought to learn from their elders. They’ve been voting years before you, so sweeping them aside and calling them idiots is terribly smug and short-sighted. And as for your assumption that the pound’s crash in value is permanent… That says it all.
Well okay for starters I didn’t call them idiots. I don’t think they’re idiots at all. They’re voting for their own interests, and doing what they think is best for them. But that is inherently short-sighted when you’re talking about older, especially 65+, voters. Y’know, it’s that old proverb: ‘Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.’
Secondly, if younger generations have little knowledge of ‘the real world, workplace, economy etc…’ it’s probably because older generations’ years of voting has gutted the very programs they themselves benefitted from because the 80s culture of greed is good discouraged paying it forward. Younger people are not living at home and pushing 30 because they’re lazy. They’re living at home pushing thirty because they cannot afford to live on their own. They’re unemployed or underemployed because the jobs are not there, not because they’re too busy taking selfies to apply. Companies are doing things like not replacing employees that retire, and I could go on at length about the classist devilry that is unpaid internships.
Thirdly, I never stated that I thought the pound’s devaluation is permanent. In fact, I didn’t mention the pound at all. Of course it’ll recover. But it’s going to take a long time. 1% changes in currency are considered massive. The pound fell like…8%? 8-10%? Even on the conservative end of that range it’s still very dramatic.
I will also continue to argue that it was undemocratic because the people who don’t have to face the ramifications of this forced a very uncertain, and given the Leave campaigners’ furious backpedalling on their promises, fairly unoptimistic future on their children and grandchildren.
Waiting for Winter 